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Thailand imposes 42-day hantavirus quarantine rules

Daily Telegraph NZ -
Thailand has officially added hantavirus to its list of dangerous communicable diseases, introducing strict new quarantine and reporting requirements despite no confirmed infections being...

Hantavirus, the WHO, and the conflicts in weighing mortality

David Bell -
Yesterday, almost 2,000 people, mostly young children, died of malaria because they could not access effective and relatively cheap treatment quickly enough. About 4,000 people...

The hantavirus panic machine: When rare diseases become media theater

Joseph Varon -
Periodically, the public faces a new microbial threat. The pattern is consistent: a tragic death or cluster of illnesses emerges, prompting newsrooms to employ dramatic...

More cases of hantavirus coming – WHO chief

Daily Telegraph NZ -
The organization insists that the outbreak will not become “another Covid”. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that “we might see more...

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